Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) was Lebanese by birth but spent a major part of his life in America in the early part of the 20th century. He wrote many collections of stories with a wise or whimsical tone but none more popular than The Prophet" his first collection or " The Wanderer" his final anthology. They are read here with great sympathy & understanding by Robert Glenister." ...

Lady Gwendoline Muir has experienced her fair share of tragedies in her short life: she lost her husband to a freak accident & developed a limp after falling from horseback. Still young Gwen is sure that shes done with love & that she will never be married again. Gwen tries to be content with her life as it is & to live through the happy marriages of her brother & her best friend Viscountess Ravensberg. Shes happy for them & for years that is enough for her.. .until she meets Lord Trentham
- a man who returned from the Peninsula Wars a hero but is unable to escape the bite of his survivors guilt. For he might just be the man who can convince her to believe in second chances.
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The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature & our most extensive source for Norse mythology. Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age it tells ancient stories of the Norse creation epic & recounts the battles that follow as gods giants dwarves & elves struggle for survival. It also preserves the oral memory of heroes warrior kings & queens. In clear prose interspersed with powerful verse the Edda provides unparalleled insight into the gods tragic realization that the future holds one final cataclysmic battle Ragnarok when the world will be destroyed. These tales from the pagan era have proved to be among the most influential of all myths & legends inspiring modern works as diverse as Wagners Ring Cycle & Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings. ...

Is more economic growth the solution? Will it deliver prosperity & well-being for a global population projected to reach nine billion? In this explosive book Tim Jackson
- a top sustainability adviser to the UK government
- makes a compelling case against continued economic growth in developed nations. No one denies that development is essential for poorer nations. But in the advanced economies there is mounting evidence that ever-increasing consumption adds little to human happiness & may even impede it. More urgently it is now clear that the ecosystems that sustain our economies are collapsing under the impacts of rising consumption. Unless we can radically lower the environmental impact of economic activity
- & there is no evidence to suggest that we can
- we will have to devise a path to prosperity that does not rely on continued growth. Economic heresy? Or an opportunity to improve the sources of well-being creativity & lasting prosperity that lie outside the realm of the market? Tim Jackson provides a credible vision of how human society can flourish
- within the ecological limits of a finite planet. Fulfilling this vision is simply the most urgent task of our times. This book is a substantially revised & updated version of Jacksons controversial study for the Sustainable Development Commission an advisory body to the UK Government. The study rapidly became the most downloaded report in the Commissions nine year history when it was launched earlier this year.




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The Emperor is enraged. Primarch Magnus the Red of the Thousand Sons Legion has made a catastrophic mistake that endangers the safety of Terra. With no other choice the Emperor charges Leman Russ Primarch of the Space Wolves with the apprehension of his brother from the Thousand Sons home world of Prospero. This planet of sorcerers will not be easy to overcome but Russ & his Space Wolves are not easily deterred. With wrath in his heart Russ is determined to bring Magnus to justice & cause the fall of Prospero. ...

Detective Shane Scully responds to a call in the Hollywood hills at a once-immaculate mansion the scene of an infamous murder twenty-five years prior. He discovers the remnants of a lavish pool party. The revellers have fled leaving three dead bodies in their wake all shot with the same gun. One is an acclaimed film producer. The other two a pair of gorgeous women. With his new partner Sumner Hitch" Hitchens Scully begins to investigate what looks to be an open-&-shut case: The women were hired prostitutes & theres security video of an angry husband firing on all three. A simple case of brutal revenge. But nothing is ever as simple as it seems: Theres a single spent bullet casing that doesnt match the rest. From that single bullet emerges a story of love murder suicide & one of the biggest financial frauds in L.A. history. Someone has gone to great lengths to cover up a decades-old crime & as Scully & Hitch get closer to the answer they find themselves in a killers crosshairs." ...

With Iran on the brink of developing a nuclear weapon Israel is forced to react. In a daring raid Israel destroys Iran's main nuclear facility creating a radioactive tomb & an environmental disaster. An outraged United Nations condemns the attacks while Iran swears vengeance against Israel & her chief backer: the USA. Enter Lebanese master terrorist Imad Mukhtar who's spent the past decade picking his targets & preparing his cells for this exact moment. All he needs is approval from Iran's Supreme Council & he will strike at America's soft underbelly & make her bleed like never before. With the US on high alert the President calls on the one man ruthless enough to counter the fanatical terrorist. Enter Mitch Rapp America's terrorist hunter & one man wrecking crew. Meeting violence with violence Rapp tracks Mukhtar across Europe to America where they are pitted against each other in a hunt only one of them can survive. ...

Exploring the detail behind the events
- how they occurred what each person learned & the impact it had on their life
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Could you spot a killer? Logan Finch's life depends on his ability to do just that. He's a bodyguard whose clients rely on his talent to head off trouble before it even starts. Now he's got his toughest job yet
- protecting American serial killer Chase Black who has been released from prison on a technicality & is in London promoting his memoirs. Colorado Homicide Detective Jake Hunter the man who put Black in jail thought that he could spot a killer. Now he's not so sure. & the more he investigates the more he wonders whether a miscarriage of justice really did occur. The trouble is: if Black is innocent the real killer must still be at large. Finch becomes convinced that someone is hunting Black & as violence erupts on both sides of the Atlantic he finds himself caught between his duty to a client & the instinct to survive the increasingly deranged individual that wants him dead. Protection is a terrifying journey that reveals the true darkness residing in the human heart.
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Three men: an Iraqi a former coalition soldier & a journalist drive together from Baghdad towards Fallujah as the US Marines encircle the city to take it apart. It seems the men are on a single mission to seek a recent kidnap victim but in truth all three have very different aims in the besieged town & each keep a dark secret from the others. Greed ambition
- & guilt
- are what separates their individual motivations but a single miscalculation could bring an end to them all.. .

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